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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUESTION-186 | In a second system with a known reciprocal coupling and one unit driven at graded strengths, does the measured transfer-entropy asymmetry grow to one-way flow under strong drive while the coupling stays symmetric? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-275, moved here when THEORY-275 was narrowed to the one bead system of LIT-947 and promoted on 2026-10-19 (ADR-047 v3). In that system the one-way regime under strong drive is a simulation of the fitted model, not a measurement. | Open |
| QUESTION-191 | Does the per-step nostalgia of a driven system without feedback fail to bound its dissipation when the drive is not Markov or the kernel does not keep each equilibrium stationary, and does any physical system show dissipation tracking nonpredictive information? | The promotion condition formerly on THEORY-026, with the part met removed. THEORY-026 was promoted on 2026-10-19 (ADR-047 v2) on a derivation that the per-step nostalgia I[s_t;x_t] − I[s_t;x_{t+1}] is nonnegative under a Markov drive and, summed, bounds dissipation from below when the kernel keeps each equilibrium stationary. What is left is whether the bound fails when either condition is dropped, and a physical system. | Open |
| QUESTION-215 | Does Landauer’s bound hold without assuming reversible microdynamics, and does any logically reversible operation have a positive entropy floor? | The open part of the promotion condition formerly on THEORY-030. THEORY-030 was narrowed and promoted on 2026-10-20 (ADR-047 v2) on a derivation that assumes the memory and its environment evolve reversibly together and start uncorrelated. Whether the bound survives without that assumption (the Earman–Norton charge that it is circular), what Landauer 1961 itself states, and whether any logically reversible step has a positive floor are open. | Open |
| QUESTION-219 | Can a persistent pattern of transfer through a system, kept while its constituents are replaced, pick out a unit that neither a block test nor a closed collective mode finds, and what separates such organized throughput from mere transport? | A3 and A5 of the exchange of 2026-10-19 on coarse-to-fine processes, A5’s candidate Q4. Turbulence has scale-local transfer across a range of interacting scales with no split into weakly coupled blocks (Eyink and Aluie, registered unread). A5 distinguished containment, mode and flux as three kinds of organization, and warned that persistent flux alone, as through an inertial range, is not an individual. The record holds dissipative structures (THEORY-072, THEORY-532, CLAIM-273, QUESTION-085) but has not set flux beside its block and closure tests. | Open |